Insta
‘Learning Outcome’ Rules To Become Part Of The Right To Education Act
Swarajya Staff
Dec 07, 2016, 08:57 PM | Updated 08:57 PM IST
Save & read from anywhere!
Bookmark stories for easy access on any device or the Swarajya app.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar today (7 December) said rules defining "learning outcome" to assess the performance of students at the end of an academic session will become a part of the Right to Education Act by March next year. Javadekar said:
The learning outcome would help assess the students’ capacity and performance and improve the standards of education. They will assess what should be a student’s reading and writing ability and mathematical ability.
Speaking at the 'Agenda Aaj Tak' event in New Delhi, Javadekar announced reintroducing compulsory Class X board examination for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliated schools from 2017-18 onwards.
The decision to codify learning outcomes and incorporate it in the RTE Act was taken during the sixty-fourth meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) on October 25. The country's highest advisory body on education had recommended allowing the states to take a call on the no-detention policy under the RTE Act and conduct exams at Class four and Class eight levels.
With inputs from IANS
Get Swarajya in your inbox.
Magazine
